Tracks | Bobby Keys: The stuff of (Stones) legends

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Oct. 18, 2012

Bobby Keys

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Bobby Keys, who raised rock 'n' roll saxophone to an art form as the sixth Rolling Stone, was kicked out of the band after he became a bad influence on Keith Richards, the world's most famous junkie. Think about that for a second.

Mick Jagger disowned Keys in 1973, after the indestructible Texan's gift for indulgence and substance abuse grew so extravagant that he eclipsed even the Stones during the band's most decadent period. Keys was kicked off a European tour, and it would be a decade before he was welcomed back full time.

This is all according to Richards, who writes with much fondness and some ...